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Maria A. Soloshcheva, Российское китаеведение 2026 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 6–23
This article examines the conceptualization of Chinese soft power and the implementation
of the PRC’s soft power strategy in Africa. First introduced into academic
discourse by American political scientist Joseph Nye in 1990, the concept was subsequently
adopted and critically re-evaluated by Chinese political theorists, most notably
Wang Huning, Yan Xuetong, Yang Shengping and Zhang Guozuo. The term has ...
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Claire Amuhaya, Denis Degterev, , in: Understanding Soft Power in Africa. The Power of Attraction from Pretoria to Beijing.: Routledge, 2025. Ch. 14 P. 178–193.
The East African Community (EAC) is often used as a yardstick by the Africa Regional Integration Index, which at times cites it as the most integrated regional bloc. Recently, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) joined the EAC seduced by its perspectives, and now, member states of the Community stretch from ...
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Routledge, 2025.
Negative images of Africa, which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged. Examples of soft power, such as Nigeria’s Nollywood, athletic successes in Kenya, Rwanda’s commercial diplomacy, and South Africa’s liberal constitution, are all reasserting African agency and shaping more positive understandings of the continent.
This book considers ...
Added: July 13, 2026
Polina A. Voronova, Varpahovskis E., Peoples' Friendship University of Russia Bulletin of International Relations 2025 Vol. 25 No. 4 P. 580–597
Despite the growing academic interest in the field of cultural diplomacy, research of how this phenomenon evolves and transforms in one of its most prolific users, France, remains limited. A review of the literature on cultural diplomacy reveals a paucity of attention to institutional aspects, despite institutional reforms having the potential to effect transformative changes ...
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Kosevich E., Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 2025 Vol. 33 No. 2 P. 107–138
With the blurring of the boundaries between peace and war in their classical sense, confrontation is moving into the information space. This study traces the logic and main stages of the formation of the Russian information influence strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Russia uses various methods to wage its information wars in ...
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Nikiporets-Takigawa G., Филатов О. А., Политическая экспертиза: ПОЛИТЭКС 2025 Т. 21 № 2 С. 244–256
The "Taiwan issue" is becoming particularly relevant in terms of the current international situation, from the problem of relations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait it is transforming into the most important factor of the Sino-American confrontation and, thereby, security in APR. Taiwan also represents the example of the policies of national territorial entities ...
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Varpahovskis E., Anastasiia Borisenko, Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 136–162
Prominent video games such as Genshin Impact have been increasingly recognized asinstrumental vectors for the diffusion of information, possessing the capacity to shape attitudesand behaviors across diverse life spheres. This study employs a bifurcated methodologicalapproach involving primary and secondary data: firstly, a functional ludostylistic analysis ofthe game’s semiotic structures, and secondly, a series of in-depth ...
Added: December 5, 2025
Mokhova E., Журнал "Петербургский международный юридический форум - 2025" 2025
The article is devoted to regional model laws as a significant direction in the development of advanced legal standards. In global agenda regional model laws can become a means of influence of a regional association of a group of states in the legal space, contributing to the ‘soft law’ acting as a ‘soft power’ ...
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Golovlev A., Новая и новейшая история 2025 Т. 69 № 2 С. 165–177
This article examines Austria’s “Auslandskulturpolitik” (foreign cultural policy) as a distinctively Austrian form of cultural diplomacy. Unlike Germany, France, Italy, or the United States, Austria faces the challenge of representing a small, neutral European country with special ties to Central and Eastern Europe while aspiring to a leading cultural role. The study is based on ...
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Смагин Е. А., В кн.: Шестнадцатые международные научные чтения в Москве «СМИ и массовые коммуникации–2024». ЦИФРОВЫЕ МЕДИАСИСТЕМЫ: ОСМЫСЛЯЯ ПРОШЛОЕ И ИССЛЕДУЯ БУДУЩЕЕ.: [б.и.], 2024. С. 207–209.
Данная работа рассматривает феномен трансформации СМИ как инструмента мягкой силы и их функциональный переход от формирования новостной повестки дня к информационному сопровождению других государственных инициатив. ...
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Иванова Н. А., Novikov D., Fan X., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2025 Т. 30 № 1 С. 172–185
One of the possible scenarios for resolving the turbulence in world politics that is being observed is a switch to a multipolar world order. Russia and China are major powers that have stated in the public affairs that a multipolar world order is a real option to a unipolar one. The article is exploring the ...
Added: February 6, 2025
Колнин И. С., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 № 5 С. 58–69
This article marks the first attempt of a complex analysis of appeals to the image of
Zheng He and early Ming maritime expeditions (1405–1433) in the present rhetoric of the head
of PRC. In the beginning, history of the formation and transformation of the image of Zheng He
and the early Ming naval expeditions prior to Xi Jingping’s ...
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Islamov D., Kuliyeva N., Мамедов Р. Т. et al., В кн.: «Мягкая сила» в Черноморско-Средиземноморском регионеВып. 398: Доклады Института Европы РАН.: М.: Институт Европы РАН, 2023. С. 131–152.
С приходом к власти в Турции Партии справедливости и развития в 2002 г. активизировалось использование инструментов «мягкой силы» во внешней политике страны. Это произошло в рамках имплементации внешнеполитической доктрины «Стратегической глубины» А.Давутоглу, предполагавшей распространение культурного влияния Турции и усиление гуманитарного аспекта её внешней политики. Гуманитарная составляющая внешней политики Турции адаптируется в зависимости от региона и ...
Added: September 7, 2024
Yenikeyeff S., Lukin A., Novikov D., Вестник международных организаций: образование, наука, новая экономика 2024 Т. 19 № 1 С. 129–148
Шанхайская организация сотрудничества (ШОС), созданная более двух десятилетий назад, на данный момент может считаться одной из важнейших международных организаций незападного мира. Притягивая интерес многих игроков в регионе, ШОС все же находится в постоянном поиске направления своей деятельности, создавая новые форматы и подписывая новые документы. Особенно этот процесс стал актуален в текущей стремительно меняющейся геополитической обстановке, требующей ...
Added: May 21, 2024
Chedia A., Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право 2023 Т. 16 № 3 Статья 5
This article examines the activities of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency for Central Asian Countries (TIKA). The organization was established in 1992 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. Since its establishment TIKA, along with other conductors of Ankara's interests (such as public foundations, NGOs, and cultural and academic centers), ...
Added: February 16, 2024
Royce D. P., Laruelle M., Beyssembayev S., Eurasian Geography and Economics 2019 Vol. 60 No. 2 P. 211–243
The theme of “Russian influence” has been invading the think tank world. Yet the concept of influence must be deployed with care. Analysts have frequently assumed that, when states do things thought favourable to Russia, it must be because Moscow has either forced them to act in that manner, or has actively manipulated their domestic ...
Added: November 4, 2023
Royce D. P., Laruelle M., Central Asian Survey 2019 Vol. 38 No. 2 P. 197–216
Though Central Asia is often studied through the prism of its relationships with external powers, research on local public perceptions of these different actors has largely been overlooked. The literature on Kazakhstanis’ perceptions of their neighbours, for instance, is scarce, and mostly focused on analysis of official discourse on Kazakhstan’s multi-vector policy, with little exploration ...
Added: November 4, 2023
Kumaneva I., Тихий К. Т., Историческая и социально-образовательная мысль 2017 Т. 9 № 6-2 С. 126–130
The article discusses some problems of cultural relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1920s - the first half of the 1930s, the Authors outline the features of cultural relations of the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1930s, attention was drawn to the order of admission of foreigners ...
Added: October 31, 2023
Varpahovskis E., Kuteleva A., , in: The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power. 2nd Edition.: NY: Routledge, 2023. Ch. 27 P. 356–367.
Added: October 6, 2023
Гордеева П. В., В кн.: Восхождение к науке: Сборник избранных научных статей студентов Восточного факультета.: Скифия-принт, 2020. С. 26–31.
The paper analyses cooperation between Iran and Tajikistan in the field of culture after the establishment of relations between the two countries in 1991. The author also attempts to trace the dynamics of these relations based on news and analytical articles, analyze the approach of the two countries to building contacts in this area, as ...
Added: September 5, 2023
Bodishteanu N., В кн.: «Мягкая сила» в Черноморско-Средиземноморском регионеВып. 398: Доклады Института Европы РАН.: М.: Институт Европы РАН, 2023. Гл. 14 С. 170–181.
В работе российских и зарубежных учёных рассмотрены пробле- мы публичной дипломатии и «мягкой силы» в условиях растущей конкуренции международных акторов и надлома прежней структуры международных отношений на европейском континенте. Особое внимание уделено Черноморско-Средиземноморскому региону, где гео- политические противоречия и международная конкуренция в последние два десятилетия неуклонно усиливаются. ...
Added: May 15, 2023